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Chennai and Tamilnadu

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

TAFE's first manufacturing plant which now houses its R&D and the total machining operations of key tractor components and aggregates.

Madurai Tamilnadu

Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Situated in the lap of nature, this modern tractor manufacturing plant at Kalladipatti near Madurai is set among verdant fields and orchards.

Doddaballapur karnataka

Doddaballapur, Karnataka, India

In a serene place called Doddaballapur close to the city of Bengaluru in Karnataka, is housed another TAFE tractor manufacturing plant.

Bhopal Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

The Eicher Tractors Division at Mandideep, near Bhopal, houses Eicher R&D facilities apart from a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant capable of producing tractors on both – air and water-cooled platforms.

Alwar Rajasthan

Alwar, Rajasthan, India

The Eicher Engines plant at Alwar, Rajasthan, produces a wide range of air and water-cooled engines in the brand names of EICHER ENGINES (upto 45 kVA) and TMTL ENGINES (above 62.5 kVA), which cater to a wide range of automotive and stationary applications.

Parwanoo Himachal Pradesh

Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh, India

The Eicher Transmissions' plant at Parwanoo produces a range of gears and transmission products for captive consumption at TMTL and TAFE apart from sale to discerning original equipment manufacturers in the automotive sector.

Manisa tukey

Manisa, Turkey

Inaugurated on September 10, 2010, TAFE’s Turkey Plant under its wholly owned subsidiary - TAFE Ve Tarim Ekipmani Sanayi Ve Ticaret Limited, Sirketi, is set against an imposing background of hills making it an apt location for manufacturing.

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Research & Development (R&D)

Overview


TAFE and TMTL have a well established R&D function operating out of their Sembium (Chennai) and Mandideep (Bhopal) plants, staffed with over 300 specialist engineers. The main thrust of the R&D function is sustainability and economic benefit to society and to launch products that meet evolving customer needs continually, leveraging the most relevant technologies in both products and processes.

TAFE's R&D facility at Chennai is a centre of excellence in farm machinery design and development since its inception in 1961. It has also been recognized by DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, for many years now. It has developed a range of products that have helped TAFE expand in both the domestic and exports markets and empowered it to become one of the top exporters of tractors from India and being the preferred choice of customers in over 82 countries. Through IT enabled processes, new product launch cycle time has been significantly reduced.

TMTL's R&D centre at Bhopal is a well equipped farm machinery and application engineering centre that has successfully brought out a range of cost effective, robust and user-friendly tractors and equipment over the last fifty years. Developing a range of both air-cooled and water-cooled tractors, the centre has a strong focus on cost, customer and innovation, with an extensive testing and validation facilities.

Capabilities

Our products are widely recognized for durability, fuel economy, productivity, ergonomics, safety and easy maneuverability. The R&D function has been proactively instrumental in enabling us design and develop technically advanced products and processes to satisfy evolving customer needs and aspirations. The R&D function is equipped with state of the art facilities adhering to our commitment of delivering products that exceed customer expectations. Some of our capabilities are listed below:


  • Fully Networked CAD/ CAE Environment
  • Virtual Design Development Process
  • Accelerated Testing setup for various aggregates
  • Field Load Data Acquisition System
  • Strain measurement, vibration and noise measurement system
  • Kinematics Analysis

Highlights

The R&D function at TAFE has specialized facilities like:


  • Computerized, climate controlled state of art vehicle dynamometer test facilities
  • Four Square and other durability test facilities
  • 4WD Axle Test setup for testing endurance
  • Torture Track test setup

Every product that rolls out of our factories comes with a promise of trust, quality and reliability.

quality focus

Quality Focus

The Amalgamations group is one of India's largest light engineering groups with interests in businesses that are predominantly in automobile components but also extend to diverse areas such as plantations, batteries, printing, book selling, pesticides and plantation products, engineering tools and paints. With a heritage of over 150 years of serving customers from farmers to tycoons the group comprises of over 40 companies with manufacturing units spread across India and a workforce of over 15000 employees. Originally comprising of a few European owned and managed companies, the group is now wholly owned and managed by Indian promoters. The group is well known for its strict adherence to quality in products and services and the highest standards of corporate governance and business ethics. Financial prudence is a hallmark of the group, leading to it being one of the least leveraged of groups with expansions being mostly funded from internal accruals.


ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 27001 Certified Company


The focus on Total Quality Management, upgrading Vendor Quality and productivity and strategic tie-ups with quality management specialists from Japan and the change management exercise facilitated by the Warwick Management Group has paid rich dividends in terms of more cost effective operations as well as being acknowledged by customers as manufacturers of quality products.

distribution reach

Distribution Reach

TAFE's tractors are delivered to customers in India through a domestic network of over 1600+ dealers supported by over 2000 sales outlets. The distribution and sale of its tractors is facilitated by the company's own fully trained sales staff of over 450 people, and close to 3000 dealer sales staff. The tractor group has a continually expanding reach through the setting of a large number of sales outlets and the group aims at reaching a state when any customer in India should be able to reach a sale point within 50 kilometers of his farm. The sales effort is supported by strategically located area offices for every major market which helps coordinate all sales efforts. The sales team also facilitates financing of tractors purchases through networking with banks and other financial institutions.


To ensure product support availability at major markets, customers are serviced through the nation wide network of dealers apart from specialist parts distributors. TAFE has an exclusive service team distributed among its various area offices to provide additional service support to dealers when and where needed.


In the international markets where TAFE directly sells its tractors, distribution is through large distributors who have their own distribution and product support network.


All dealer service personnel, both domestic and international, are trained at TAFE's Product Training Centre near Chennai on usage, servicing and troubleshooting of products through extensive and structured training programs that use a judicious mix of class room training, on the field and in workshop training as well as through the aid of digital media.


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